Wet winter and rising energy bills spark damp and mould warning

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mold is caused only by one thing: shit housing.

  My last place was filled to the brim with it. Every ceiling, every nook and cranny, it even ate one of my vinyl records through the sleeve because I simply leaned it against a wall in a corner, that’s how bad it was.

  It was one of those gross partitioned victorian mcmansions and I had the basement level flat, a houseshare of 5-50 “people” above. Full fat humidifier running around the clock and nothing at all.

  Landleech said nothing could be done about it and just painted over it once. Humidity never dropped below 80%, and it was basically always cold as fuck.

  Now I moved across the country and live in a new place, converted office building done circa 2017. Humidity is at 50% year round, it’s really nice and no gas or boilers in sight either. I haven’t changed a single one of my habits and I’ve never seen so much as a speck of it here. It’s bigger and has nice modern design and costs less, too.

  Our housing is ancient, our infrastructure crumbling, half this country needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch.

  We’ve spent more on HS2 so far with nothing to show for it than what it cost to build the entire city of Milton Keynes, (adjusted for inflation).

  We need to build taller, stop asking permission from residents, build on so-called “greenbelt” land and nationalize enough to afford to build affordable housing ourselves where the market can’t help.

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